SVP, Financial Systems & Technology

Business Unit:

Information Technology

Industry:

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Overview

Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.

Overview

Houlihan Lokey (NYSE:HLI) is a global investment bank with expertise in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, financial restructuring, and valuation. The firm serves corporations, institutions, and governments worldwide with offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific region. Independent advice and intellectual rigor are hallmarks of the firm's commitment to client success across its advisory services. Houlihan Lokey is the No. 1 investment bank for all global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions, the No. 1 M&A advisor for the past seven consecutive years in the U.S., the No. 1 global restructuring advisor for the past eight consecutive years, and the No. 1 global M&A fairness opinion advisor for the past 20 years, all based on number of transactions and according to data provided by Refinitiv. For more information, please visit www.hl.com.

Scope

The firm's financial technology platforms sit at the center of how Houlihan Lokey closes its books, reports its results, and scales as a global financial institution. As Senior Vice President, Financial Systems & Technology, you own the strategy, delivery, and ongoing health of these platforms and the teams that build, run, and support them, ensuring the systems the business depends on are reliable, well-governed, and ready to grow with the firm.

The current financial technology environment includes Oracle and SAP Concur, with a roadmap that may evolve as the firm's needs change.

Reporting to the CIO, Information Technology, you hold primary accountability for the financial and operational performance of the function. You set direction, own the operating model and sourcing mix, and partner closely with Finance, Accounting, and business stakeholders to translate financial and operational needs into durable technology outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage software vendors and delivery and support partners against agreed service levels, delivery commitments, cost, and business outcomes; maintain clear accountability across internal teams and external providers.
• Develop and execute the financial systems roadmap, aligning talent and investment with firm priorities; evaluate alternative platforms and lead modernization or transitions through delivery and adoption while maintaining continuity of financial operations.
• Lead the implementation and adoption of AI and agentic capabilities within the financial platforms in scope, including capabilities delivered by platform vendors, in partnership with the teams that own enterprise AI strategy and governance; prioritize use cases that deliver measurable value while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Own decisions that carry significant impact on the firm's financial or operational performance, including platform design direction, build-versus-buy, and internal-versus-external sourcing.
• Partner with Finance and Accounting to define and deliver technology support for financial processes within the function's remit, including close and reporting, and general ledger, accounts payable, expense management, and consolidation where applicable.
• Own technology controls, access governance, audit support, and remediation for financial applications, in partnership with Finance, Accounting, and Information Security; translate policy and control requirements into practical technology solutions.
• Own financial application integrations and the controls that support complete, accurate, and timely financial data flows, in partnership with Finance, Accounting, and enterprise technology teams.
• Own application reliability and support performance, including service measures, incident escalation, release management, upgrades, and coordination around critical financial processing periods.
• Hold primary accountability for the financial performance of the function, including budget, sourcing mix, and the cost and value of the platforms and teams within scope.
• Prepare and present clear, well-organized materials on strategy, performance, and risk for review by firm leadership.

Leadership:

• Hold full leadership responsibility for teams of leaders, planning the needs of the business and setting functional strategy.
• Build cross-functional trust and alignment through clear, persuasive communication; articulate the team's vision, goals, opportunities, and challenges to audiences across the organization and connect its work to firm priorities.
• Lead teams through change with calm, credible judgment, clear priorities, and practical support; listen to concerns, explain decisions, and help teams adapt while maintaining delivery.
• Create opportunities for leadership and visibility for direct reports, and play a significant role in their career development; identify talent in other parts of the organization.
• Roll up your sleeves and actively contribute to the team's success.
• “Walk the walk” and promote Houlihan Lokey values in every aspect of team development.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise financial technology platforms and the teams that deliver and support them, including people-leadership responsibility for other leaders.
• Working knowledge of Oracle financial applications and SAP Concur, along with experience across other enterprise financial platforms.
• Experience leading financial systems in varied enterprise technology environments, including evaluating alternative platforms and guiding modernization or transitions.
• Background partnering closely with Finance and Accounting stakeholders on close, reporting, and control outcomes.
• Broad and comprehensive understanding of the systems, theories, and practices of enterprise financial technology, platform delivery, and support operations.
• Proven ability to set functional strategy and own the financial and operational performance of a function, including budget and sourcing decisions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence a wide range of audiences and to present and defend complex or sensitive issues that carry important impact on the business.
• Demonstrated comfort using AI-enabled tools to streamline delivery, analysis, and reporting, with sound judgment about where new technology can improve outcomes.

Preferred

• Experience leading a build-versus-buy or internal-versus-external sourcing shift for a core financial platform.
• Familiarity with how functions, businesses, and regions work together in a global organization, ideally including exposure to the economic, commercial, and regulatory issues affecting financial services.
• Experience leading teams through organizational change and transformation.

About the Team

We believe that as we grow individually, we also grow as an Information Technology team allowing us to contribute to the overall growth of Houlihan Lokey. We embrace challenges and try new things, always looking for ways to improve. We deliver technology products and services enabled everywhere, so business can happen anywhere. We like where we work, who we work with, and what we do. We cultivate a culture where we all thrive.

 

Compensation and Benefits

Houlihan Lokey is committed to providing its employees with an exciting career opportunity and competitive total compensation package, which may include other components such as discretionary incentive compensation. The firm’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the possible salary range for this role at the time of posting is:

$275,000-$300,000

Actual salary at the time of hire may vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s relevant qualifications, skills, and experience and the location where this position may be filled.

Houlihan Lokey provides a competitive benefits package. Our current benefits offerings can be found here:

2026 Benefits

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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